Livre d'Or

This is interesting; I loved both of North's books and part of the reason is that they're not very plotty, but an intense and in depth exploration of an idea and how it would affect people. What would it be like to live this way?

Touch is about a person who can jump bodies, or take over a mind, just by touching someone. The concept I have come across before but always in the context of stories about "how do we conquer the evil?"; never as an in-depth novel-length exploration about what it would be like. I was riveted - books like that are the reason I like science-fiction, and they are all too rare.